Expertscape Ranks World’s Top Doctors and Institutions in Type 1 Diabetes
UF researcher Dr. Mark Atkinson is honored for his preeminent contributions to the treatment and understanding of Type I diabetes. As part of its continuing program to highlight expertise and excellence in healthcare, Expertscape.com takes pleasure in recognizing the world’s top institutions and medical specialists in the research and treatment of Type 1 Diabetes. According […]
Gainesville Program Empowers Women in Tech and Engineering
On this Tech Tuesday, we spoke to the winning team in this year’s installation of EWITS – empowering women in technology startups. EWITS is a 10-week program in which women learn how to overcome hurdles they may face in a startup. The program, an effort of the Collaboratory of Women Innovators located in UF Innovate […]
‘Most Innovative’ Products Are a Magnificent Seven
Connect, San Diego’s oldest startup accelerator, recognized seven companies with ground-breaking technologies on Nov. 29. Pared down from a pool of 23 finalists by a team of judges, this year’s winners designed products that are better, faster and stronger than the competition. UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Banyan Biotech, named one of […]
AxoGen Announces Avance® Nerve Graft Recipient Selected to Ride on Donate Life Rose Parade® Float
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum AxoGen, Inc., a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for damage or discontinuity to peripheral nerves, announced that Madelyn Nicpon was selected to ride on the 2019 Donate Life Rose Parade® float that will be featured in the annual Tournament of Roses® parade. The […]
Two UF Researchers Named 2018 Fellows in the NAI
Two University of Florida researchers, Dr. Christine Schmidt and Dr. Philip Koehler, have been named 2018 fellows in the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Schmidt is the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & Department Chair in the UF Department of Biomedical Engineering, where she focuses her research on biomaterials for neural tissue regeneration and neural […]
Positive Payor Policy Covering coflex® by Select Health of South Carolina for the Surgical Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
On Nov. 1, UF startup RTI Surgical announced it would acquire Paradigm Spine. Its coflex® has gotten Positive Commercial Payor Policies from seven health insurance companies, including Select Health of South Carolina noted in this article. Paradigm Spine, LLC, a leader in providing solutions for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis, announced issuance of a […]
Nash Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Pre-Clinical Results For Its Lead Compound NP-178 in a New Study for Crohn’s Disease (Globe Newswire)
Nash Pharmaceuticals Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of UF startup Breathtec Biomedical Inc., is pleased to announce that in a recent in vivo animal study for Crohn’s disease (CD), NP-178, its lead compound for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC), performed equivalent to and in some measurements, better than 5-ASA, a current global standard of […]
Connect Honors 7 New Products as ‘Most Innovative’ at Annual Awards (xconomy.com)
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Banyan Biomarkers does have a presence in San Diego, which is why it is listed among these finalist companies “local” to Connect, a startup accelerator in that city. San Diego’s Connect, which runs a tech and life science startup accelerator, recognized seven local companies […]
DNAtrix’s Oncolytic Virus Expressing OX40 Ligand Treats First Patient in Recurrent Glioblastoma Clinical Trial (PR Newswire)
UF startup DNAtrix, a leader in oncolytic virus immunotherapies for cancer, announced the treatment of the first patient with DNX-2440, an oncolytic virus expressing OX40 ligand (OX40L). The first-in-human Phase 1 study is evaluating the safety and efficacy of DNX-2440, administered by Alcyone’s Microtip Cannula at the time of biopsy, to patients with recurrent glioblastoma […]
Raytheon Company Joins UF Innovate | The Hub to Launch Cooperative Program with the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering (BusinessWire)
Raytheon Company and the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering have joined in a cooperative program, the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) two-semester course for UF engineering students, to develop new software, learn more about secure coding practices and better understand systems engineering. Raytheon Company, a global technology and innovation leader specializing […]